Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 135 Attacking the mountain? Collecting corpses!
The fifth day since the evil spirits sealed the mountain.

The most convenient mountain roads around Mount Paektu are already filled with guards.

In addition to the necessary city defense, the guards of the three cities dispatched a total of 650 people this time, and also borrowed 300 elite soldiers from the Jizhou Military Office of the provincial capital to join the army.

The guards were mostly sword and shield soldiers, supplemented by spear soldiers. After all, the terrain in the mountains was narrow, and the army formation could not be deployed normally, so the spears could not be used to their maximum effect. On the contrary, swords and shields were the most powerful in this kind of terrain.

These nearly 1,000 soldiers actually started moving two days ago, but they did not attack the mountain. Instead, following the guidance of the spies from the bandit and demon elimination vanguard camp, they first pulled out the bandits who had previously escaped down the mountain from the surrounding villages and towns as well as the neighboring hills.

The number was quite large, with nearly a hundred people arrested in just two days.

The rest have run too far away, so we can only issue arrest warrants.

These bandits will try their best to capture them alive.

It’s not that the crime is not punishable by death, but they will be brought back to Sandai City and then beheaded in a ceremony. Hundreds or even thousands of bandits will be lined up together and beheaded in rows!

It not only demonstrates the merits of suppressing bandits, but also allows the people around Sandao City, who have suffered from the bullying of bandits, to vent their anger.

This is also the consistent rule for suppressing bandits.

When the time came to actually attack the mountain, Qin Zhong led the army personally, and Wang Hai also lined up together. The troops were divided into two groups and marched all night, determined to strike head-on at any enemy who dared to stop them.

In order to attack the mountain stronghold as quickly as possible, Qin Zhong brought all the large crossbows from the three cities, more than 150 in total. The 23 masters of the police station brought by Wang Hai also all carried crossbows.

These preparations are all aimed at breaking through the bandits' defenses as quickly as possible.

This is not an exaggeration, but a matter of experience.

Although the bandits are a motley crowd, they take advantage of the terrain and always cause considerable trouble to the anti-bandit army, even causing heavy casualties.

According to intelligence, Mount Paektu uses caves as its base, and has dug out a dense underground network in several mountains.

When Qin Zhong got this information, his head hurt.

Even though Yang Qian, a bastard who Qin Zhong thought was ridiculously strong, had gone in to fight ahead this time, Qin Zhong still didn't dare to relax and was prepared to lose 10% of his troops.

"Report! We have reached the fork in the road ahead, and no visible or hidden sentries of the bandits have been spotted!"

"Go forward!"

Qin Zhong had sensed something unexpected since he entered the area within a hundred miles of Mount Paektu.

Because it is reasonable to say that a mountain stronghold like Baitou Mountain, which has been fighting with the government and military of Sandaocheng for nearly ten years, cannot be so lax and lax. He did not find any sentries along the way, let alone patrols of bandits.

These problems had occurred during several previous anti-bandit campaigns in Sandacheng, and even caused great trouble to the government troops.

But it’s gone just this time?

With doubts, Qin Zhong led the army forward and asked the other army to give him a report every half hour.

As a result, we reached the foot of the several hills where the bandit stronghold of Mount Paektu was located, but we still did not encounter any bandit checkpoints or patrols, not even a single bandit shadow. But it was not really a complete failure.

Along the way, we found many caves and tree holes that were often inhabited by people, as well as some obvious man-made shelters.

This shows that the bandits from Mount Paektu did set up checkpoints along the road, but they are now deserted.

Why is this happening?

This is what the bandits who were caught before confessed: The whole mountain is in chaos?
Is it so chaotic that even the checkpoints are abandoned?

Qin Zhong thought it was ridiculous. But out of caution, he did not march quickly. He still followed his own arrangements and steadily approached Mount Paektu. He also set up several sniper points at the foot of the mountain to prevent the bandits from rushing down from the mountain and escaping the net.

After all this was done, Qin Zhong began to give orders to attack the mountain.

The results of it?
They climbed up the mountainside smoothly without encountering any resistance or even seeing any bandits.

Just like going for an outing, we found the cave that was said to be the entrance to the most important mountain village in Mount Paektu.

The first person the guards saw after entering the mountain was Yang Qian, who had regained his original appearance.

Yang Qian was sitting on a rock at the entrance of the cave, eating a sweet potato, with a pile of campfire embers at his feet.

"Yang Qian! Why are you here? Where are the bandits? Where are the evil spirits?" Qin Zhong hurried over after hearing the report from his subordinates. He was even more surprised to see Yang Qian looking leisurely.

What do thieves think of you when you sit here and eat roasted sweet potatoes?
"They are all in the cave. Some are dead, some are injured. I estimate that there are no more than 70 people who can still breathe. Here, this is the map of the tunnel inside. The thick lines on it are the routes to where the bandits are. You guys go and catch them. The cave stinks so much that I won't go in."

Yang Qian came out of the cave in the morning, drew a map of the bandits' route, and then ate something while waiting for the soldiers to come up. When he saw Qin Zhong, the first thing Yang Qian thought was: You're too late.

"Where are the demons?"

"They are all in the cave. Don't worry, they are all dead. The living ones have already escaped."

"." Qin Zhong blinked a few times and didn't know what to say for a moment. Before Yang Qian performed martial arts in the military camp, Qin Zhong would have thought that Yang Qian was crazy and talking nonsense. Although he still felt that Yang Qian's words were unreliable, it was not easy to deny it directly.

After a pause, Qin Zhong began to deploy his men. He ignored Yang Qian's words "all dead" and "half dead". He still wanted to be safe, and arranged the troops to break into the cave according to the plan, and ordered his elite troops to start sweeping the cave.

When the first corpse of the evil spirit was carried out, Qin Zhong's face gradually became out of control and he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

By nightfall, all the thieves and bandits still alive in the cave were captured and taken out. They encountered very little resistance, and many of them even had expressions of complete relief on their faces after they came out.

As for the corpses of the evil spirits, there were seven of them in total. According to the captured bandits, more than a dozen of them died before the mountain was closed, and their corpses must have been eaten by other evil spirits.

If that's the case, then there are more than a dozen or twenty demons that died in this Baekdu Mountain? !
And if we count the bandits who were eaten, the number would be over hundreds!
Was all this caused by Yang Qian alone?
Qin Zhong admitted that Yang Qian was very powerful, but he didn't believe that Yang Qian was so strong that he could destroy an entire village by himself. He felt that there must be some strategy involved, and he was curious about how Yang Qian did it.

Looking at Yang Qian who was already reporting to the chief constable Wang Hai, Qin Zhong felt inexplicably irritated.

He originally thought that the military guards were the absolute protagonists in such matters as suppressing bandits and exterminating demons. But now it seemed that they had become supporting roles.

What is this? Am I the one who comes to collect corpses?
(End of this chapter)